Saturday, April 15, 2006

Doodle 4 Google Competition

Image: 2005 winning entry by Lisa Wainaina, age 11

Google are running their first nationwide Doodle 4 Google competition, following last year's London pilot. If you attend a school or college in the UK and are between the ages of 4 and 18 you are in with a chance of becoming one of the 300 Regional finalists and going on to win the top prize - you and your family get to head out to Googleplex, California, and your doodle goes live for 24 hours:

'Doodle 4 Google - My Britain' is a nationwide design competition open to the UK's 10 million school children. Young people are being invited to design a Google doodle explaining what it means to be British today. The winning doodle, which will be displayed on the Google UK homepage for 24 hours, will be seen by around 18 million people.

Comments

It is a cool idea - the marketing people over at Google are really on the ball. It's a great way to get Google on the school map - and anything that encourages the integration of/recognises internet practice in the classroom is fine by me. Maybe they could also get a citizenship lesson or two out of Google's stance on China.

i am in the doole google competiontion and i was just wondering if you have any tips mine is no way as that one above and i would like to make it just as good but different to that one have you got any ideas for pictures i could draw aroungd the word google

I am in the Google competition and have been working hard on my design. I am looking forward to the closing date of the competition to find out who will win. All my class have taken part and if I do not win but a friend of mine does I shall be very pleased for them and my school will be very proud.

Hi everyone! Good luck to all my student readers who are taking part in the Google competition - I'll be extremely proud too if any of you win - very jealous as well, I'd love to be heading off to Googleplex!